General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTake the Pew quiz to see what category you are in:
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/quiz/political-typology/Also, when you read their description of Faith and Flag Conservatives after you take the quiz, I think you will recognize a lot of Trump cultists.
Kaleva
(36,332 posts)Your best fit is
Establishment Liberals
along with 13% of the public
tblue37
(65,483 posts)phylny
(8,385 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Miguelito Loveless
(4,470 posts)with only 6% of the populace.
SheilaAnn
(9,709 posts)Jerry2144
(2,110 posts)Green Line
(1,123 posts)Tracer
(2,769 posts)That surprised me a little. I thought most of the questions were just liberally framed.
crazylikafox
(2,761 posts)2naSalit
(86,767 posts)But I disagree with their criteria.
wryter2000
(46,077 posts)I thought I'd be more liberal than that, but Mainstay Democrat is good.
ARPad95
(1,671 posts)a kennedy
(29,699 posts)WillUSAF
(91 posts)Mossfern
(2,547 posts)Then I took the test again using the opposite answers that I did the first time around
and came out as a Faith and Flag Conservative.
It was interesting to see what the averages were though.
brush
(53,840 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,471 posts)gab13by13
(21,385 posts)Is that you Bernie? Progressive left.
NewHendoLib
(60,018 posts)happybird
(4,616 posts)Your best fit is
Progressive Left
along with 6% of the public
Dave says
(4,627 posts)hunter
(38,325 posts)Nevertheless my public politics are always practical.
Anyone who says "both parties are the same" or throws their "progressive" vote away on some unelectable candidate hoping to send some kind of message needs to be smacked with a clue stick.
Politics is a messy business.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)Not a big surprise.
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)Chautauquas
(4,451 posts)Greybnk48
(10,172 posts)The word establishment strikes me as mildly insulting. Anyone else?
spooky3
(34,467 posts)highplainsdem
(49,029 posts)I'm fine with the label.
tinrobot
(10,914 posts)I answered a few questions that we could 'work within the system' to solve problems.
I guess that makes me establishment. Sure, whatever.
hunter
(38,325 posts)... there's only what works.
Sometimes you have to refuse to move to the back of the bus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks
tinrobot
(10,914 posts)That's where I was going with it. I'm all for radical change, but not so keen on tossing out the Constitution.
But, apparently, that makes me "establishment". OK.
hunter
(38,325 posts)But it has to be a measured approach. The "system" of Rosa Park's time was legally oppressing people who were not white and the white majority tacitly supported that oppression. People seeking progress had to step outside of that system to shed light on the injustice of it.
On the other hand storming the Capital Building to overturn a legitimate election is not a measured response. It doesn't matter if it's fascists and white supremacists or radical leftists who are scaling the walls.
I agree with you, the question was ambiguous, but it does highlight a difference between "conservative" and "liberal" Democrats.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)highplainsdem
(49,029 posts)Maeve
(42,287 posts)Left on!
NavyDem
(529 posts)I describe myself as socially liberal, and fiscally conservative. The term "Establishment" has become more a slur directed at people that are more into incremental change.
Some of the questions presented were way too black and white. For example, the question about prison time. I selected not enough, based on the fact that too many white, or wealthy individuals that do not serve enough time for the crimes they commit. The problem however, is that there is no room for nuance. As we all know, POCs are disproportionately given harsher sentences for the same crimes.
cachukis
(2,262 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)Patton French
(763 posts)maxsolomon
(33,384 posts)Seriously.
Love, A Progressive Left.
gristy
(10,667 posts)sarisataka
(18,755 posts)As expected
Bettie
(16,121 posts)though, I know that our little 6% corner is despised by many.
usajumpedtheshark
(672 posts)wackadoo wabbit
(1,167 posts)When I take the Political Compass test, I'm always far to the left of Bernie!
bif
(22,740 posts)Coventina
(27,169 posts)DiamondShark
(787 posts)Chellee
(2,101 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Works for me
myccrider
(484 posts)which isnt surprising, but I agree that many of the questions choices lacked nuance. For example, I answered the prison sentence question as "too long" because of the mass incarceration of POCs and drug sentencing but I also think that rich/influential people get away with a huge amount of crime and arent held accountable. I also think "increased trade" has been a mixed bag for working people because there were few, if any, regulations to protect workers from income loss while trade increased. So trade could have been increased (maybe not as much) without huge losses if the govt had effectively mitigated the impact.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Not playing, thanks.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)Especially when they're put out by organizations whose main purpose is to harvest data.